The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-03-10
PRO OR CON.
That Is, PRO -hibitiOn of the
Liquor Traffic,
Or CON-tentment with Affairs
As They Now Exist Here.
Some Objections Answered Rea.
sons Why We Are For
Prohibition.

Some Objections Answered-Some Rea
sons Why We Are For
Prohibition.
The saloons benefit nobody. Alcoho
has medicinal and mechanical uses, but
as beverage it is and always has beer
source Of trouble, misery, distress, dis
ease, debauchery and crime.
1t hurts everybody. There is no one
30 fortunate that he has no relative Of
friend injured by the drink habit. Every
citizen from pauper to President il
touched by its influence. The question
is a personal one with every man.
But II Is chiefly the drinker who suf.
fers from drink. It is he who feels the
bite Of the serpent and the sting of the
adder and sees serpents and adders in
profusion. He knows his degradation
and feels his helpfulness.
The home of the drunkard suffers with
him. At his fireside squalor and pov.
erty hold sway. Want is seen in the
thin faces of the children, despair in the
mothers downcast eye. But description
is needless. You yourself have seen
the sad picture.
Intemperance effects the school. II
robs the drunkard's children of the ben.
efits of education. Through this means
it produces ignorance in the voter, one
of the worst evils that threaten our land.
The saloon is the merchants worst
enemy. The liquor business outstrips
all other business. The money which
the saloonist obtains from the drinker
would be spent with the clothier and
the grocer if the saloons were abolished.
The use of stimulants Injuries a man
mentally. Where is the drinker whose
mental faculties are undimmed by his
habits? This is self.evident truth.
Living proofs of the effects of liquor
walk our streets every day in the week.
1t injures a man morally. No man
addicted to the drink-habit can main.
tain as pure life as the abstainer. In.
temperance opens gateway to all the
hell.holes of vice that exist to entice
the unwary boy. 1t makes the animal
passions predominant and stultifies the
spiritual nature.
It injures man physically. This has
been too long a matter of fact in the
medical world to need any proof or dis.
cussion here. Doctors prescribe liquors
in some cases, but the highest authori.
ties have decided once for all that alco.
holic drinks are injurious. The old
theory that stimulants were beneficial to
health has long since been exploded.
To abolish the saloons would of course
throw saloonists and their employees out
of business. But this is not 80 serious
matter as some are disposed to make
it. Saloonists are good business men
and manage we'll. Their ability will
make its mark ip other lines of bust.
ness. When the saloons are gone other
business will be more successful and an
opening will be found for those who are
thus thrown out Of employment. This
has been the case elsewhere and will be
here.
Saloons can not do as much harm out.
side the corporation as inside. Men
who would be temperate if they were
able, will not have temptation daily
flaunted in their faces. If they can set
up saloons and flourish as we'll or better
on the outskirts, why do saloonists OBJ.
ject 30 seriously to removal? Is II
nothing to improve the orderly appear.
ance of our streets by removing all
manufactures Of disorder and violence
Need we take the space to say that
local option infringes on no mans per.
sonal liberty? No man has q right to
make beast of himself in public and
neither has man right to sell his fel
low that which will injure him. Gu,
personal liberty exists no longer when
we become a nuisance to our neighbors
The entire town will not be left desc
late and uninhabited if the election il
carried for prohibition. Good people
never run away from q town because i
ID quiet and orderly. The people whe
leave because prohibition is in effec
win be precisely the kind Of people vi
want to get rid Of. The customers wht
60 to town to trade because whisky 4
sold there do not deal largely in any
thinp excaDt vhiskv.